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Biometrika 1987 74(3):445-455; doi:10.1093/biomet/74.3.445
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Did Shakespeare write a newly-discovered poem?

RONALD THISTED and BRADLEY EFRON

Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A.
Department of Statistics, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.

The consistency of the word usage in a previously unknown nine-stanza poem attributed to Shakespeare with that of the Shakespearean canon is examined using a nonparametric empirical Bayes model. We consider also poems by Jonson, Marlowe and Donne, as well as four poems definitely attributed to Shakespeare. On balance, the poem is found to fit previous Shakespearean usage reasonably well.

Key Words: Authorship • Empirical Bayes • Poetry • Poisson regression • Shakespeare • Species


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